Tondano language

Tondano
Tondano
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Northeast Sulawesi
Native speakers	(92,000 cited 1981)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Minahasan North Northeast Tondano; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tdn
Glottolog	tond1251

Tondano (also known as Tolou, Tolour, Tondanou, and Toulour) is an Austronesian language spoken in the Tondano area of northeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is most similar to Tombulu and to Tonsea.^[1]

There is some lexical influence from European languages, such as Dutch, as well as Malay, Tombulu, and Ternate.^[2]^[3]^[4]

^ ^a ^b Tondano at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Sneddon 1975, p. 32
^ Watuseke 1958
^ Watuseke 1985, p. 3

[e18-1] Tondano at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Sneddon 1975, p. 32

[3] Watuseke 1958

[4] Watuseke 1985, p. 3

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